there is a fight with samsung and apple. apple won a $1 billion jury judgment against samsung recently regarding patent infringement on the iphone and ipad and now samsung is appealing that and now adding another apple device to its own patent case against apple this time the iphone 5. at the same time, the judge presiding over the case in san jose in federal court decided to lift the sales ban on the galaxy tab 10.1 that was the one samsung device that the jury said did not infringe on apple's patents. a lot of legal maneuvering going on between them. speaking of tablets, hewlett- packard, which got out of the business a year ago, is getting back in with a new tablet that's aimed at the enterprise market based off of the palm web os software system that it bought a couple of years ago. >>> automakers sales in september, chrysler sales up 12%, its best september in five years. ford reporting that its sales were down a tenth of a percent on lower truck sales. stocks, mild gain so far today dow up 14, nasdaq up 12, s&p up 4. b